If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

The world is God's language to us.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.